haul off on
Example Sentences
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It is high time that we should ’bout ship and haul off on the opposite tack, if we would not be regarded as impertinent intruders.
From The Voyage of the Aurora by Collingwood, Harry
Upon this, the pilots were anxious to haul off on the larboard tack; but before the ship could be brought to the wind, she struck.
From Narratives of Shipwrecks of the Royal Navy; between 1793 and 1849 by Gilly, William O. S.